Nandini Das

This Little World (MP3-Download)

A New History of Tudor and Stuart Britain Ungekürzte Lesung. 720 Min.

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Produktbeschreibung

From the prize-winning author comes a bold and enthralling new history of Tudor and Stuart Britain – from the reign of Henry VIII to Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate – told not through its kings and queens, but through the lives of those who crossed its borders. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries forged a powerful image of England – Shakespeare's 'scepter'd isle', proud and apart, defined by royal spectacle and myth. But beneath this familiar narrative of ruffs and gowns, kings and queens, lies a more complex and connected reality. England at this time was far from insular. Travelling in and out of the country were Venetian glassmakers with English wives, African innkeepers and Native American envoys. There were people like the Flemish artist Levina Teerlinc, probably the only painter to be employed by four English monarchs. There was William Adams, a Kentish navigator who became Japan's first English samurai. And there was Elizabeth Key, daughter of an enslaved mother in the colony in Virginia, who battled in the courts for herself and her son. Drawing on extensive archival research, attentive to the textures of daily life, yet alive to the sweep of history, This Little World offers a startlingly new, globally resonant vision of England's past and what it meant to be English. It is a story of a nation in the making – on the cusp of empire – told through the traces of those often written out of it. In reframing England's story within a wider world, it challenges us to rethink some of our most fundamental ideas: about nationhood, about identity, and above all, about belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526669629
• Artikelnr.: 75715079

Autorenporträt

Nandini Das OBE is professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture in the English faculty at the University of Oxford. Brought up in India, she was educated at the Jadavpur University in Kolkata, before moving to England for further study. Among other books, she is co-editor of The Cambridge History of Travel Writing. A BBC New Generation Thinker, she regularly presents television and radio programmes, including Tales of Tudor Travel: The Explorer's Handbook on BBC4. In 2025, she was awarded an OBE for services to Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and to Public Engagement.